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VETERINARY HOKEOPATHY 



HORSE AND COW. 

WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THE 

HAHNEMAM MEDICINE COMPANY, 

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Entered, according to the Act of Congress, on the year 1868, 
by the 

HAHNEMANN MEDICINE COMPANY, 

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in 
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DIRECTIONS. 



To find the pidse in the horse, feel for the notch 
about three inches from the angle of the jaw bone ; 
there the throbbing; can be felt, as the artery jjasses 
over the edge. Both the pidse and breathing should 
be thoroughlr studied in a healthy animal first. Ex- 
amine the animals' mouth, legs, ears, to distinguish 
the cold and hot stages of disease. The treatment 
of most of the diseases of the horse, cow, sheep, 
and hog, is the same as here laid down, only the dose 
should be in proportion to the size of tlie animal. 
The medicine must be given in pure water — and well 
mixed. Small horns are the safest to give the fluid med- 
icines in, and they should be well cleaned before each 
dose. For a full grown animal the dose is 10 drops in a 
gill of water. Give the medicine every fifteen minutes, 
half hour, hour, or two hours according to the ur- 
gency of the case ; when the animal improves, every 
three, four or six hours is often enough. In chronic 
cases, three times a day is often enough to give the 
medicine. 



HORSE. 



FEVER. 



Symptoms. — The horse's legs, ears and mouth are 
cold, and he hangs his head and yawns ; the coat looks 
rough. This is the case in the first stage of most 
fevers and inflammations. 

In the second stage the skin is hot, dry, and smooth; 
tongue coated, and breathing quick ; pulse increased 
and full. 

Treatment. — In the cold stage, give No. 1 every 
half hour or hour until the hot stage comes on, then 
give No. 3 in place of No. 1, until the animal sweats. 
If not better soon, give No. 20 in alternation with No. 
3, once an hour. When the breathing is quick and 
there is catching at the sides, give No. 4 once in two 
hours, and stop the others. 

RHEUMATISM-FOUNDER. 

Symptoms. — Swelling of particular parts, generally 
the limbs, with heat and lameness. When the disease 
attacks the fore-legs, it is called Chest Founder. 

Treatment. — When the skin is hot, quick, full 
pulse, swelling and pains in the joints. No. 3 is the 
remedy, once in three hours in alternation with No. 20. 
When the joints are painful, hot and swollen. No. 5 is 
the remedy. If movement aggravates the pain and 
the joints are swollen. No. 4 once in two hours, and 
stop the others. If the disease shifts from one part 
to the other, alternate No. 7 with No, 4 once in two 
hours. 



STRANGLES. 

Symptoms.— There is swelling between tlie jaws 
whicli at first is liard, hot and tender. The horse 
seems almost suffocated until the swelling bursts, or 

^^ Treatment.— No. 2 and No. 12 alternately, once 
in four hours. When the disease is cured, but the 
horse is weak, give No. 8 morning, noon and night. 
Poultice with a bran poultice. 

INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN, or MAD 
STAGGERS. 

Treatment.— When the pulse is quick and full, 
the eyes red and furious-looking, give No. 2 and No 
3 every half hour alternately. If the horse does not 
improve in twenty-four hours, give No. 4 once an 
hour, in alternation with No. 20. 

MEGRIMS-FITS. 

Symptoms.— The horse stops, shakes his head, stag- 
gers and falls into convulsions. Give No. 2 morning 
and noon, and No. 20 at bedtime. 

PARAPLEGIA. 

Symptoms.— Is palsy of the hinder half of the body 
Treatment.— Give No. 2 morn, noon and night ; if 
this fail, give No. 9 the same. 

TETANUS-LOOK-JAW. 

Symptoms.— The muscles of the jaws and neck are 
first affected so that the animal cannot swallow. 

Treatment.— If caused by a wound, put 20 drops 
tincture Arnica in a gill of water— apply cloths wet 
in this. Give internally No. 2 and No. 20 once an 
hour first one, then the other. II the horse does not 
improve, give No. 4 once in two hours in alternation 
with No. 9. 



INFLAMED LUNGS, or CHEST. 

Symptoms. — The breatliing is at first quick, then 
Y^anting and heaving ; the nose and eyes are red, the 
mouth hot and dry. There is a hard, painful cough, 
and in the latter stage the pulse is small and weak. 

Treatment. — When the cold stage is on, give No. 
1 every hour until the hot stage ; then stop and give 
No. 3 once in half an hour. When the breathing is 
short with cough, give No. 4 once in two hours. If 
these do not stop the disease and the discharge from 
the nose is yellow or streaked with blood, give No. 
17. In bad cases alternate No. 8 with No. 17 once an 
hour. 

PLEURISY. 

Symptoms. — The pulse is hard, quick and wirey ; 
there is an anxious look in the face, and the pain is 
continuous. Body is hot, feet cold. Pressure be- 
tween the ribs produces pain. The head is turned 
often towards the side ; the breathing is jerking and 
short. 

TiiEATMENT. — Give No. 3 once an hour until the 
fever is lowered, then stop and give No. 4 once in two 
hours, in alternation with No. 20. After the disease 
has abated, give No. 11 three times a day. 

INFLAMMATION OF THE LARYNX. 

Symptoms. — Breathing short and when the air is 
drawn into the lungs, a rough, harsh sound is heard. 

Treatment. — Give No. 2 and No. 3 once an hour, 
and if the trouble increases, give No. 12, first one, 
then the other. 

BRONCHITIS. 

Symptoms. — There is rattling heard in the wind- 
pipe and at the breast, with short tickling cough and 
difficult breathing, the eyes and nose are red. 



Treatment. — Give No. 3 and No. 4 once an lioili' 
for the fever. If the throat is sore, give No. 2 alter- 
nately ivith No. 3. If there is a discharge from the 
nose, give No. 5 once in two hours alternately with 
No. 20, and for the tickling cough, give No. 19 once in 
two hours. 

SORE THROAT. 

Symptoms. — The throat is hot, painful and swelled 
on the outside. The fever the same as other sympto- 
matic cases. 

Treatment. — Use No. 2 and No. 3 alternately once 
an hour. When the swelling of the throat and diiii- 
culty of breathing increases, give No. 5 once an hour, 
in alternation with No. 20. 

INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE. 

Treatment. — If tears are abundant, and the white 
of the eye covered with red streaks, give No. 2 and 
No. 3 alternately every two hours. When the eyes 
cannot bear the light, and are covered with a white 
scum, give No. 5 once in two hours, and stop the oth- 
ers. Use for a wash, twenty droi)s of tincture of 
Arnica in a gill of water. 

INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS. 

Symptoms. — Pressure to the abdomen gives pain. 
There is shivering, rolling but more gently than in 
colic. The pulse is wirey. Insert the arm up the 
anus, and if the intestines are very hot, there is' in- 
flammation. 

Treatment. — Give No. 2 and No. 3 alternately ev- 
ery half hour or hour. If the bowels are constipated, 
and there is frequent urging to stale, give No. 9 once 
an hour alternately with No. 20. If there is a small 
weak pulse, skin cold and covered with a clammy 
sweat, the belly tucked up, and pain excruciating, 
give No. 8 every fifteen minutes as a final. The feed 
ought to be simple and not harsh. The same treat- 
ment for inflammation of the stomach or liver. 



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FOUNDER, or LAMINITIS.* 

Symptoms. — Fever in the feet. The feet are in- 
tensely hot and painful. 

Treatment. — Remove the shoe, and apply cold 
poultices of turnip, in which a little tincture of Arnica 
has been put. (rive No. 2 and No. 3 internally every 
hour, first one, then the other. If not soon relieved, 
give No. 20 alternately with No. 4. 

GENERAL DROPSY. 

Symptoms. — There is watery swelling over the 
whole body, The belly, breast, lips, sheath are more 
or less swollen. 

Treatment. — Give No. 8 thrice a day, if not better 
in a week, use No. 4 once in three hours. 

PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA. 

Symptoms. — All the legs below the knees and hocks 
are enlarged ; the breathing is quickened ; bloody 
serum exudes through the skin. There are purple 
spots inside the nose. 

Treatment. — Give No. 3 once in two hours, for for- 
ty-eight hours, then give No. 4 the same, and if not 
better, use No. 6 ; when the horse is recovering, give 
No. 11 twice a day. 

POLL-EVIL. 

Symptoms. — The head is kept quite motionless, and 
the nose protruded. The swelling bursts in several 
places, from which there exudes a foul, fistulous dis- 
charge. The matter burrows deep amongst the ten- 
dons. 

Treatment. — Put twenty drops of Arnica tincture 
into a gill of water and apply by means of cloths 
wet in the same. Give No. 2 alternately with No 
12 once in four hours. To prevent the matter from 
burrowing it must be let out with a lancet. 



SPAVIN SPLINT. 

Symptoms. — Any bony enlargement iipon.tlie low- 
er and ihner side of the hock. Sj^lint is also a swell- 
ing on the inner and lower part of the knee of the 
fore-leg. If the above disease is of recent occurrence, 
and there is lieat or pain, use Lotion B. ; nib well in 
morn, noon and niglit. Take No. 6 internally three 
times a day. Should the disease continue, put twen- 
ty drops of Nitric-acid into a pint of water ; rub well 
in at niglit. Use Sulphuric-acid the same way in the 
morning, until the parts become tender. Should the 
above fail, take one drachm of Corrosive Sublimate to 
16 ounces water, use same as the othe.is, giving ten 
drops, at the time internally. 

GLANDERS or FARCY. 

Symptoms. — The nosa is usually the seat of glanders 
while farcy is located in the lymphatics. In farcy 
there are hard, painful, hot lumps on different por- 
tions of the body. 

Treatment. — If the discharge is green or yellow, 
and of a bad smell, give No. 7 three times a day. 
When the glands under the jaw are swollen, and 
there are pustules on the membrane of the nose, give 
No. 5 three times a day. When the horse grows poor 
and the lips and eye-lids swells give No. 8 three times 
a day. 

INFLUENZA. 

Symptoms. — The membranes of the nose are yellow 
and inflamed. There is great weakness coming on 
suddenly. The eye-lids are swelled and tears Sow, 
the discharge from the nostrils is sometimes great 
and streaked with blood. 

Treatment. — Give No. 1 in a wine-glass of water 
every two hours. When the skin is hot and dry, 
pulse hard and full cough, mouth hot^, give No. 8 sarne 
as No. 1. If the throat is sore, use No. 2 and No. 20 
alternately, once in two hours. When there is great 
weakness and much discharges from the nose, give 
No. 8 once in two hours, in alternation with No. 19. 



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INDIGESTION. 

Symptoms. — The liorse is liide-bound, weak, — tliin^ 
foul tongue, dry dung mixed with oats undigested, 
and a hacking cough. 

Treatment. — Give No. 9 three times a day. If 
the horse sweats easily, urine, scanty, no appetite, 
give No. 8 three times a day. If these should fail, 
use No 10 the same. 

CONSTIPATION. 

Give No. 9 in the morning, and No. 11 at night. 
STOMACH STAGGERS. 

Caused by over-feeding. 

Symptoms. — The horse has a dull, sleepy appear- 
ance and a staggering gait. There is sometimes con- 
vulsions, and the nose and eyes look yellow. This 
disease is generally fatal. 

TiiEATMENT. — When the animal totters, while the 
eyes almost start from their sockets, give No. 2, in al- 
ternation with No. 20, every two hours. When there 
is griping with costiveness and loss of tone in the 
stomach, give No. 9, same as No. 2. 

MANGE. 

Symptoms. — The skin is corrugated and the hair 
falls oft' in patches. The animal is always rubbing 
itself. In Chronic cases, the skin becomes thickened 
hard and dry. Give No. 8 at night, and No. 11 in the 
morning. Use Lotion E externally. 

CRACKED HEELS, GREASE or 
SCRATCHES. 

Symptoms. — Thickened skin. Cracks, and ulcera- 
tion of the skin at the heels. 

Treatment. — Give No, 8 four times a day. If the 
cracks are very painful, poultice, apply Lotion E night 
and morning, with a clean sponge. Dilute Sulphuric 
acid is a good application. 



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ABSCESS. 

This is a gathering of matter. Give No. 8 and No. 
12 once in three hours alternately. 

FISTULAS WITHERS. 

Caused by pressure of the saddle upon the top of the 
shoulder. 

Symptoms. — Numerous holes burst out, which are 
the mouths of so many fistulous pipes. Let the 
matter out, then squirt Lotion C into the openings 
several times a day. Give No. 13 night and morning 
until the animal is well . 

COLIC GRIPES. 

Symptoms. — The horse is uneasy ; he strikes the 
belly with the hind-foot, paws the pavement ; nose 
turned to flank. The pain conies and goes. The 
horse falls violently on the floor in the last stage, and 
then seems relieved, but another attack of cramps 
soon comes on, and if he is to die, every attack be- 
comes more severe, when death ensues from inflam- 
mation. 

Treatment. — If the belly is tender to the touch, 
pulse full and frequent, with constant effort to stale, 
give No. 3 every fifteen minutes. If there is rumbling 
and distention of the belly, give No. 16 in alternation 
with No. 3. When the pain is not constant, and 
there is constipation, and he lifts his head to look at 
his flanks, give No. 9 in alternation with No. 1. Es- 
pecially the latter when the colic is caused by wind. 

INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS. 

Symptoms. — The pulse is full, hard and quick ; but 
soon becomes small and weak, The hind-legs are 
stiff, and are placed widely apart. 



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Treatment. — In the first stage, give No. 3 once in 
two hours alternately with No. 20. If caused by bad 
food, give No. 9 once in two hours alone. When the 
urine is liloody and passed drop by drop, give No. 13 
every half hour until relieved. For inflammation of 
the bladder. No. 3 and No. 13 are the remedies. For 
scanty urine. No. 9 and No. 13. 

DIARRHCEA. 

Treatment. — When the color is brown with wa- 
tery and slimy discharges, and the mouth is pale, legs 
cold, and weakness. 

Give No. 8 every hour or two. When there 
are greenish discharges, with pain, give No. 5, in 
alternation with No. 8. If the disease continues after 
taking the above, two or three days, give No. 7 alter- 
nately with No. 17. 

DYSENTERY. 

Symptoms. — Violent purgation is generally the first 
sign. The discharges are very offensive, and the dung 
is covered with slime, and sometimes blood. There is 
straining as if the animal would force more stool out, 
but without success, the mouth is hot, the breathing 
quick. 

Treatment. — Give No. 3, in alternation with No. 
8. When there is violent straining, the dung is hard 
and mixed with slime, give No. 5, alternately with 
No. 16, and stop the others. 

BROKEN WIND. 

Symptoms. — Short dry, hacking cough, abundant 
flatus. The forcing of the air out from the lungs 
takes longer time than the act of drawing air into the 
lungs. 

Treatment. — Some cases of broken wind cannot 
be cured, while others may be benefitted by the long 
use of remedies. 



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When there is a wheezing noise and cough, with 
difficulty breathing going up hill, give No. 8 once in 
four hours. When there is a hoarse, hollow cough at 
night, and the breathing is panting and hurried, give 
No. 2 and No. 4, alternately. For thick vdnd, when 
the horse expands his nostrils and pants for breath, 
give No. 1, morn, noon and night. If not better in a 
Aveek, give No. 2, the same followed by No. 8. 

Give No. 11 twice a day after the others have re- 
lieved, and No. 19 once a day. 

COMMON COLD. 

Symptoms of a severe cold, are dullness ; a rough 
coat ; the nasal membrane of a deep scarlet or leaden 
color, and a discharge from the nose. 

Treatment. — If there is a hot and then cold skin, 
dry, short and frequent cough, nose and eyes red, 
mouth hot and dry, give No 3 once in three hours 
for twenty-four hours. If not better, give No. 2 and 
No. 20 every two hours. For irritation of the lungs, 
give No. 19 twice a day, 

COUGH. 

Idiopathic cough is common, but if it is a symptom 
of some other disease, as pleurisy, pneumonia bron- 
chitis, or catarrh, they must be cured, when the cough 
will disappear. If the cough is not a symptom of some 
other disease, then the following treatment will cure 
it. For a dry cough with a tickling in the throat, 
give No. 2 and No. 4 every two hours alternately. If 
caused by a deranged stomach and is worse after eat- 
ing, No. 9 three times a day is best. For deep, hollow, 
hoarse cough, and when it is chronic, give No. 17 and 
No. 19 once in four hours, alternately. 

SPASM OF THE DIAPHRAGM. 

Symptoms. — Distress and a strange noise heard 
from the centre of the horse, 

Tkeatment.— Give No. 4 and No. 20 every fifteen 
or twenty minutes, alternately. 



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SYMPTOMS.—TOOTHAOHE. 

Head carried on one side or pressed against tlie 
wall ; dribbling of saliva. The tootli dies ; the oppos- 
ing tooth grows long. 

Treatment. — File doAvn the sharp edges of the 
teeth. If the jaw is diseased, poultice and give No. 
18, night and morning. 

In cutting teeth when the gums are tender and 
swollen, give No. 2 morn, noon and night. If there 
is a dry, hacking cough, No. 9, morn, noon and 
night. 

DROPSY OF THE CHEST. 

SYMrTOMS. — The breathing is difficult, and when the 
horse is moved, lie appears frightened. The nose and 
mouth are of a lead color — the legs, breast, sheath 
and belly are swelled and there is a short cough. 

Treatment. — Give No. 5 and No. 8. once in three 
hoiirs, alternatel3\ 

BOTS. 

Symptoms. — The horse looses flesh and strength, 
and has griping pains in the belly, eats and drinks 
greedily, oats pass without change. The stomach is 
sometimes eaten completely through. 

Treatment. — Give one dose No. 8, night and 
morning, for three weeks. If the horse does not im- 
prove in three weeks, give No. 10 the same. 

QUITTOR. 

This is a deep, narrow ulcer, opening upon the cor- 
onet. Lotion C, squirted into the sinuse three times a 
day, and give No. 18, internally, morn, noon and 
night. 



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CORNS. 

Symptoms. — These sometimes form Quittor. A 
bright scarlet stain, shows the existence of a corn. 
Corns are of four kinds, the old, the new, the sappy 
and the suppurative. The old is generally near the 
surface, the new is deep seated, the sappy effuses 
serum. It is the new corn, that produces lameness. 

Treatment. — Pare out, and apply tincture of Ar- 
nica upon a bit of cotton, tack on the shoe lightly. 
Apply a bran poultice to the foot. 

WORMS. 

Symptoms. — The head is large, crest low, legs long 
and abdomen swollen, bu.t surest proof is to find them 
in the dung. 

Treatment. — When there is a slimy covering on 
the dung, dry cough, with bowels alternately costive, 
at other times purged, give No. 8 night and morning. 
If this fails, give No. 4, the same. 

WOUNDS. 

Apply cold water to stop the bleeding, if this does 
not do, it may be necessary to tie the blood vessels. 
Apply water in which twenty drops tincture Arnica 
has "been put. If there is fever, give No, 3 once an 
hour. If there is inflammation, and the sides of the 
wound become hard, swollen and painful, let the mat- 
ter out and apply Lotion C. 

BRUISES. 

The only treatment necessary is to keep the injur- 
ed part at rest, and feed low. Apply Arnica and 
water to the part, twenty drops of the tincture to a 
gill of water, and give ten drops internally in a wine 
glass of water, three times a day. If matter forms, 
make an opening in the swelling, and treat as an ab- 



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DISEASES OF THE CO^W^. 



PLEURO PNEUMONIA. 

Symptoms. — In the majority of cases, in the begin- 
ning of the disease, there is a short, dry, husky cough, 
followed by thick, frothy phlegm from the mouth. 
There is pain in breathing, and the fore legs are sepa- 
rated and fixed in one place. 

TiiEATMENT. — If there is much fever, give No. 3 
once an hour, with No. 4 in alternation. If there in 
great weakness, small, quick pulse, grinding of the 
teeth, cold skin and clammy sweat, give No. 1 and No. 
8, in alternation once an hour. When there is a loud 
friction or listening to the lungs, give No, 17 once in 
two hours. 

LOSS OF CUD. 

Treatment. — No. 8 at night, and No 9 in the 
morning. 

MILK FEVER. 

Symptoms. — This fever begins soon after calving. 
The horns are hot, the mouth hot and dry. 

Tteatment. — Give No. 2 in alternation with No. 3 
once an hour, until the fever is lowered. For the de 
bility, give No. 1 and No. 8, once in two hours al- 
ternately. 



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ABORTION, OR SLINKING THE OALP. 

Symptoms. — There is want of appetite, and loss of 
spirits as well as cud, witli hollow flanks. The move- 
ment of the calf ceases, and there is a yellowish dis- 
charge from the vagina. 

Treatment.— Give No. 14 once an hour, if the 
abortion is completed, and there is a discharge of 
bright red blood, Give No. 15 once an hour. If the 
slinking is caused by a strain or hurt, use No. 6 once 
in two hours. The same treatment is used for flood- 
ing. 

SORE TEATS. 

Treatment.— Put 30 drops of No. 20, into a gill of 
water, and wash the teats well with it. 

THE CLEANSING, OR AFTER BIRTH. 

If not soon discharged after calving, give No 7 in 
alternation with No. 14, once an hour alternately. 

Other prominent diseases of the Cow or Ox-, require 
nearly the same treatment as the same diseases in the 
Horse. 



END. 



INDEX 



Abortion in the Cow, 


17 


Laminitis, 


8 


Abscess, 


11 


Lock Jaw, 


5 


After-birtli, 


17 


Mad Staggers, 


5 


Broncliitis, 


6 


Mange, 


10 


Broken Wind, 


12 


Milk Fever in Cow, 


16 


Bruises, 


15 


Megrims, 


5 


Bots, 


14 


Paraplegia, 


5 


Common Cold, 


13 


Pleurisy, 





Constipation, 


10 


Purpura Hemorrhagica 


, 8 


Colic, 


11 


Poll Evil, 


8 


Cough, 


13 


Pleuro Pneumonia in 




Cracked Heels, 


10 


Cow, 


16 


Cud, Loss of in Cow, 


16 


Quittor, 


14 


Corns, 


15 


Rheumatism, 


4 


Diarrhoea, 


12 


Strangles, 


5 


Dropsy, general 


8 


Spavin, 


9 


" of the Chest, 


14 


Splint, 


9 


Diaphragm, Spasm of 


13 


Sore Throat, 


7 


Dysentery, 


12 


Sore Teats in the Cow, 


17 


Farcy, 


•9 


Stomach Staggers, 


10 


Fever, 


4 


Toothache, 


14 


Fits, 


5 


Tetanus, 


5 


Fistulas Withers, 


11 


Worms, 


15 


Founder, 


8 


Wounds, 


15 


Glanders, 


9 






Grease, or Scratches, 


10 






Influenza, 


9 






Indigestion, 


10 






Inflammation of the 








Brain, 


5 






" " Lungs, 


6 






Larynx, 


6 






" Eye. 


7 






Bowels, 


7 






" " Kidneys 


,11 







